Writing Your Research Question Blog Spot

Greetings fellow students!
During tonight’s (3/22/2017) Optional Collaborate discussion session, we had a conversation on some of the issues with developing or moving forward in the process of creating your research question. There was a lot of great feedback and support from professors and students. One of the ideas mentioned was to provide a place were we can post our questions and work through feedback from each other.

Another idea that was shared was to review other dissertations or research papers that provide an overview that might be like your proposal or question. This is a resource that was shared during our January winter-session that is out of the University of Wyoming. http://repository.uwyo.edu/as_smtc/

Dr. Makubuya and Dr. Miller also reminded us that we can time with one of our advising professors. This includes providing them your question and setting up appointments to walk through the process with a one on one in person or over the phone conversation. There is also the opportunity to have multiple students make appointments together. They are open to the what process works for you!

Lastly and maybe the most key to our on-line course time, was the idea that Dr. Miller proposed. He and Dr. Makubuya discussed the concept of walking through questions during a class and facilitating the discussion around the process of that question. If a student would like to take the lead that is welcome!

To start the process with this Writing Your Research Question Blog Spot.

Feel free to start posting your questions here! We can continue to work through feedback from each other.

Here are my questions.
Again these are very drafty – I plan on revisiting them more constructively on Friday.

What is your research question for this data / research?

Quantitative research question:
What is the frequency of high self assessment and overall scores for self reflection for Yosemite Leadership Program participants in the study?
Does the survey explain the relationship between the self assessment and timeframe of
implementing the pre and posttests controlling the effects of the self-reflection scores?

Qualitative research question:
How are the assessments within the Yosemite Leadership Program delivered for UC – Merced participants?
Are you implementing your program – is it doing what they want it to do? And what they want the
program to do? What are the two aspects that I am looking at?

Basically the thesis has two possible overviews:
1. Program implementation – protocols – What are the protocols, which I am leaning towards because of the best practices of assessing programming.
2. Program assessment – this is actually assessing the program, not the research of the program. This would tie into the grant application, final report, and are the pre- and post- surveys delivered as a part of the actual program curriculum. How does that work?